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Syrian Mi-8s and Mig-25s


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Two aircraft that the Syrian have are the Mi-8 and the Mig-25. Both aren't in Syria's aircraft list in DCS and it would be nice if they were included. The Mi-8 is used currently by the Syrians for a number of missions including transport, resupply and more infamously for air to ground work, and the Mig-25 is apparently still in operation by the Syrians, though it is a rare aircraft anymore.

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Definitely agree about the MI-8, the World air force database suggests there are 2 x Syrian Mig 25s so they would be a bit of a rarity to see in the field!

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Su-17/22 and Mi-24/25 is missing from the Syrian inventory too.

And including liveries please. The MiG-23, MiG-29, Su-24 and L-39ZA are there, but no liveries.

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I agree, we need to have Su-17/22, Mig-25 and Mi-8 on Syrian side. For mission makers it is big problem becouse they need to use Russian side to act as Syrian units.

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P.s. I use the website to see what given air forces have and where.

https://www.scramble.nl/planning/orbats/syria/syrian-arab-air-force

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And when looking around Tiyas on Bing maps, you can see several 25's scattered all over the place. If they are airworthy or just decoys?

https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=86394e9d-4647-4219-89ad-ebc6cc3b1240&cp=34.525381~37.604466&lvl=18&style=h&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

- more on the east and north east corner.

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Unfortunately bing maps makes it very hard to find image date, you have to use a specific API. For google earth you have to access “historical imagery” mode, which I find very finicky to get to.

 

Tom Cooper has a great article on how it has never been proven that the MiG-25s have flown during the Civil War, and it would be really interesting to get dates for these images and more

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Downloaded google earth pro and looked through the last ten years of imagery for Tiyas.

 

The MiG-25s on the south east have pretty much never moved. The north west MiGs were moved there in 2011 and two were moved away a year or two later. The MiGs on the north east have increased in number but once moved there they stay. As of 05/04:19, the MiGs are still there scattered across those three places, with a lot of them having never moved on Ed.

 

There was one time they got close to the apron, two on 05/01/2009 were at a hangar on the north side, but I assume they were sent to what I will name “Foxbat fields” by the time of the next image taken in 2014.

 

With that many scraps around I would believe a couple flights, but it looks like a graveyard to me

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I'll add to this the Flight Global World Airforce database for 2020 which was where my reference came from

https://www.flightglobal.com/reports/world-air-forces-2020/135665.article

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I'll add to this the Flight Global World Airforce database for 2020 which was where my reference came from

https://www.flightglobal.com/reports/world-air-forces-2020/135665.article

 

Nice data, thx :thumbup:

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